EMBLEM OF THE CRAB IN RELATION TO THE SIGN CANCER. 611 



5. Cancer marked the date of a festival of Pallas, and the Crab is figured with Pallas 



on coins of Cumse. 



6. Cancer is constellated with Hydra, simultaneously with part of which Virgo rose, 



and the Crab is associated with Hydra in the legend of Hercules, and hence 

 with Lerna when the rites of the Virgo coelestis were performed. 



7. Cancer is in the neighbourhood of Corvus and Crater, and on coins of Mende the 



Ass is figured with the Raven and Cup. 



8. Cancer rose opposite to Aquila and Delphinus which set soon afterwards, and 



moreover set precisely as the Dolphin rose ; the Crab or the Ass is associated 

 with the Eagle on coins of Agrigentum and Motya, and with the Dolphin on 

 coins of Motya and Argolis. 



9. Cancer rose as Pegasus set, and the Crab is figured with the Horse on coins of 



Agrigentum. 



10. Cancer rose as Cetus or Pistrix set, and the Crab is figured with the Sea-monster 



on coins of Agrigentum. 



11. Cancer rose as the Southern Fish set, and the Crab and Ass are figured with the 



Fish on coins of Agrigentum and Cyzicus. 



Very few indeed of the numismatic emblems and symbols that are found associated 

 with the Crab have been omitted from the foregoing discussion. Of the few others that 

 occur the most remarkable is the Toad, on coins of Venusia. It would be a very 

 beautiful coincidence of emblem and appellation if we could show this Toad to be the 

 symbol of that lunar Hecate that in an ancient invocation or incantation is addressed as 

 (ppovvy, the ' she-toad,' # and that some would identify with the Egyptian Hek-t, the 

 frog-headed Heka, the frog-goddess Hiquit or Hequit, the goddess of maternity and the 

 divine watcher over the birth of the Sun.f 



* Vide F. Legge, " A Coptic Spell of the Second Century," Proc. Soc. Bibl. Archasol., May 189V. 

 t Cf. R. Brown, jun., Semitic Influence in Hellenic Mythology, 1898, p. 158. 



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